Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013)

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa Synopsis

86 year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companions, his 8 year-old Grandson Billy in "Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa”. This October, the signature Jackass character Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville) and Billy (Jackson Nicholl) will take movie audiences along for the most insane hidden camera road trip ever captured on camera.

Along the way Irving will introduce the young and impressionable Billy to people, places and situations that give new meaning to the term childrearing. The duo will encounter male strippers, disgruntled child beauty pageant contestants (and their equally disgruntled mothers), funeral home mourners, biker bar patrons and a whole lot of unsuspecting citizens.

Real people in unreal situations, making for one really messed up comedy.

There are some weekends when a movie that is so well crafted, so thought provoking, and so much the cinematic masterpiece sweeps into theaters and is overwhelmingly the number one movie at the box office, restoring faith in the American psyche and its ability to both enjoy and reward great movie making.

There's no Paranormal Activity movie coming to theaters this October, but that doesn't mean we've gotten rid of franchises that just keep coming back when you think they're gone. The latest installment of the Jackass series, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, is the undisputed champion of the weekend box office, bringing in an estimated $12.4 million on Friday, including $1.4 million from midnight screenings.

One of the clear-cut perks of writing for a movie-news Web site is that you occasionally get emails from studio press reps asking you to “Watch Bad Grandpa Get His Penis Stuck In A Vending Machine” … and it counts as work.

I don’t know about you, but my kid’s been driving me nuts with pumpkins lately. It’s pumpkin this, pumpkin that, daddy let’s carve a pumpkin. It was driving me crazy. Until I saw this page. My god, talk about giving the Halloween season some oomph. These people are heroes. Thank god for movies, right? How else would Halloween be bearable?

As well, they’re working the whole “no one around us knows what we’re doing” angle, so hopefully it’ll work as something of a cross between one of Sacha Baron Cohen’s character features and a Super Dave Osborne special. That’s what the above clip reminded me of the most. I think I just miss Super Dave a lot.

Sacha Baron Cohen made a hell of a lot of money by making movies where he would dress in funny disguises and rile up real people to capture their reactions on tape, and now the boys of Jackass are looking to cash in on a similar idea. As we first reported earlier this month, Paramount Pictures has funded a feature length version of the Irving pranks that Johnny Knonny Knoxville pulled in the first three Jackass movies and the original series.

It's been 13 years since Jackass first debuted on MTV-- yes, that means you're old, but star Johnny Knoxville is probably older, and way too old to keep the schtick going. And yet… he's coming back, and actually embracing his age in a way. Paramount and MTV Films have announced, via The Hollywood Reporter, that they've already finished shooting a new Jackass movie, this one called Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa